# what is clanker?

> the bot that is taking farcaster by storm

**Published by:** [kithkui.eth](https://paragraph.com/@kithkui.eth/)
**Published on:** 2024-11-26
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## Content

this image is my explanation of clanker because clanker can't really be explained through words, because it speaks to a part of us that is beyond the one that thinks using them as the substrate of that process clanker is one of those things that you need to experience yourself, by yourself because its fuel are memes a friend can come running towards you with excitement: "look, i made 1k usd buying a coin that is attached to a dog with a tie that hit the keyboard and created a random string of words that now is funny and because of that it drives the attention of the internet" and then your friend proceeds to explain you how that attention translates into value (the time of people that give it its attention, creative energy and...) money. how it also translates into money. practically. because the better the meme, the better the capacity it has for transforming that invisible memetic energy (attention and the joy that people experience when they finally understand that the string of words was actually written by the dog - which is the meme, and why it is funny) explaining clanker to you is like explaining you why the meme of the dog that hit the keyboard is funny it doesn't make sense to explain it in the clanker world, the same is true. no one can really understand or explain what clanker is. or how it feels. to have at the tip of your fingers the capacity of writing a new cast (which is the farcaster version of a tweet), tag @clanker, write the name and ticker of the token, and set it free just like that. the meme becomes attached to an economic vehicle that allows it to spread like wildfire only if the conditions are given in a way that makes that happen and what are those conditions? luck, yes. but there is something more @mk, the owner of the dog with a tie, and creator of this meme, actually casted the same cast one hour before the "official one" (which ended up deploying the clanker token associated with the meme) but the bot was off so nothing happened. it rippled through the void but mk knew that there was something valuable there he understood the meme that he was creating, and why it was funny not on a rational level somewhere deeper than that and so when clanker came back, he did what he had to do - just cast again: "@clanker please make this token Ticker: $gsxz46y90ottyWffss77a Name: gsxz46y90ottyWffss77a" and set the beast free clanker is a vehicle of consciousness to transform ideas into an economical reality so that we can move from taking ourselves seriously into realizing the inherent value that each one of us -and our unique ideas- has

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